https://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2012/05/13/off-the-beaten-path-in-italy/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:14:16 -0400<![CDATA[Barbara and I have spent most of the last six weeks in Italy, our adopted second home.  We met in Rome in 1973, got married five months later in the big synagogue on the banks of the Tiber, lived there for several years, and have managed to get back every year for varying lengths of time.  This trip has been almost all in places most tourists don&#8217;t get to see, like rural Tuscany and Naples, and Campagna, and right now we are in Sorrento, looking across the bay at Naples and Vesuvius, which, as the vulcanologists will tell you, is overdue for its next eruption, which will devastate the whole region&#8230;so far, no sign of it this week though.]]>Sun, 13 May 2012 08:07:24 -0400<![CDATA[Michael Ledeen]]>https://pjmedia.com/michael-ledeen/2012/05/13/off-the-beaten-path-in-italy-n187564